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Bridge

Brickeen Island,Muckross, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bridge, Brickeen Island, Muckross, County Kerry, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Brickeen Island,Muckross
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Brickeen Br.
Coordinates
52.01520, -9.54735
SMR number
KE074-033----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1868 · 4. Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

A humpback road bridge (Wth 5.4m; long axis E-W) connecting Muckross demesne to Brickeen island between Lough Leane and Muckross Lake. It is currently used as a pedestrian bridge on a walking route in Killarney National Park. It is built of random rubble sandstone and has a single pointed arch (span c. 8m) with long roughly dressed voussoirs. Sloping buttresses and terraced walls flank the arch on the upstream and downstream sides.

Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.

Date of upload: 31 January 2011

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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